Costa sets up the Costa Foundation, a registered charity focused on improving the social and economic welfare of coffee-growing communities.

Costa is launched in Cyprus by Symeonides Coffee Cyprus Ltd. The first 2 iconic stores open in Nicosia and Limassol.

Costa Coffee open their first International store in Aviation Club, in Dubai.

The brothers opened their first Costa Coffee store in Vauxhall Bridge Road and their reputation for artisan quality coffee grew dramatically. Over the years, more stores opened in London, across Europe and crossed continents to Asia and Middle East.

As demand for their coffee grew, they moved to their iconic roastery on Old Paradise Street.  It was there the Costa brothers blind-tested 112 variations of coffee before they tasted one good enough to be their signature blend – Mocha Italia.

The Costa Coffee story begins in 1971 when Sergio and Bruno Costa arrived in London from Parma Italy with a passion to sweeten any bitterness in life by way of making a great tasting, bitter-free coffee a part of everyday life.